Letters from the Equator

I remember when I first got a volcano red Sony Ericsson T610. It was a used Midlands unit, which I got for RM800 and came with a Krussel case worth RM50 which I never used. It served me well over 2 years, but by now the rocker was starting to give way and the camera wasn’t worth anything by camphone standards today.

It still looked gorgeous, though. Matched the color of my car.

I had to give it up, though. Well, okay… “had to” is a subjective term. I gave it up for a W810i. Today. Same candy bar format. Same phone manufacturer. Same look and feel. But it’s super-powered.

Compared to my T610, it can…
- play mp3s up the wazoo
- shoot photos that will take up 3 times your PC screen
- animate every single cursor movement
- do the laundry and cook my meals

Apparently, it will make phone calls too. But my T610 could already do that.

So, yay for Moore’s Law. I paid a little over RM1k for this tiny thing, and I’m going to use it as a camera, a walkman AND a phone. Which is what I bought it for in the first place.

Yummy yum.

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